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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 03, 1999
Paul Anthony Kirkby, Old Harlow, GB;
Martin Biddiscombe, Houslow, GB;
Subramanian Sabesan, Soth Harrow, GB;
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, CA;
Abstract
The Invention provides a distributed resource allocation Method. The distributed resource allocation method is based on the concept of proportional fairness. In this method, users express their willingnesses to pay to the local distributed controller which is associated with those users. The bandwidth allocated to each user is determined by the local controller with which they are associated and the allocation takes into account the relative demands on all the resources in the network and the time taken for those demands to reach the distributed local controllers. The distributed controllers each use only locally available information at their respective nodes, but take into account the delays between nodes. The locally available resource (i.e. bandwidth) is divided in proportion to the willingnesses to pay expressed by the various users entering their particular node. On a ring (and in other networks where the only place that traffic streams are multiplexed is at the periphery) this guarantees that no data will be lost (due to cell/packet collision) once it has been launched.